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EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
… around the world, touring countries like Germany and the United States alongside musicians like Paul Simon. While …
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
… Mapongwana, wife of chairperson Michael Mapongwana of the United Democratic Front (UDF) affiliated Western Cape Civic …
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… their inception the African National Congress (ANC) and United Democratic Front (UDF) have called for grass roots …
EventRebels take control of Kinshasa, Zaire
… debt accrued by the country, nor would he allow the United Nations to conduct an investigation into suspected …
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… Protests were made in the British Parliament and the United States of America, as he was not treated in accordance …
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… Africa as the American Civil War was in the history of the United States. Related: The South African War …
EventNiger's Independence Day
… in independent Niger, proceeded to put in place a single-party system that brutally suppressed his opponents. In 1974, …
Event“Maberete” strike ends more than a decade of labour broking at the South African Post Office
… in the working class’s fight against all forms of third party employment. In a research paper on the continuous …
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… who formed a cabinet consisting of members of the ruling party in the four colonies. On 31 May 1910, the Union of …
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… She also became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and served in the regional leadership of the …
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the South Indian Congress (SAIC) and the …
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… to you for giving me a statement of the views of your party, but I regret I am not able to accede to your request …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… adoption was precipitated by the victory of the National party and its determination to implement a policy of …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… made from the 1980s. Ratsiraka tried to maintain a one party state but local and international power forced him to …
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP). Among those arrested were Sathyandranath 'Mac' …
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). APLA supported the PAC ideology of iZwe …
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… to co-operate with the security forces. Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) president Mangosuthu Buthelezi described the …
FOREWORD: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
… commit ourselves to the following: 1. The Inkatha Freedom Party agrees to participate in the April 26-28, 1994 …
Public announcement of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee hearings of Comrades Julius Malema, Ronald Lamola, Pule Mabe, Sindiso Magaqa Kenetswe Mosenogi and Floyd Shivambu, 10 November 2011
… "...the fundamental goal of the ANC remains to construct a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous … treats its alliance partners, COSATU…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… which has been in the focus of world attention, the United Nations, represented here by Ambassador Sahnoun, of … You can have civil rights in this country,…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… Boesak was also instrumental in establishing the United Democratic Front (UDF), which was one of the largest … and the impending South African ambassador to…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… brunt of apartheid. We greet the leadership of the ruling party and Alliance partners, for whom this is an extra … our country has changed fundamentally…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… it but the ANC comes with a counter-view of a one-party state so people are quite afraid of the one-party state and so they would rather die. POM Why do…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… future leader of the ANC and South African Communists Party is born at Tamposstad near Zeerust in the District of …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… in the then Union of South Africa. In 1948, the National Party under the leadership of DF Malan came to power. The …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… respectively) who helped establish the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1939 First becomes a member of …
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… Commission of Inquiry. 21 March, The Workers and Socialist Party of South Africa is launched at the Lucas Van Den Bergh …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… of the Apartheid government in 1948 under the National Party (NP) took land dispossession and segregation even …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… accused, fifteen had been members of the Communist Party and thirty were Whites or Indians, but only two of the …
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour (MPLA-PL) who were the earlier recipients of … heroic people and government under…